Interstate 55 in Missouri

In the state of Missouri, Interstate 55 runs from the Poplar Street Bridge over the Mississippi River in St. Louis to the Arkansas border to the south.

History

Sponsorship controversy

The white supremacy group Ku Klux Klan began fighting several court battles with the state of Missouri after the state disputed its right to sponsor a stretch of highway. In March 2004, after a U.S. District Court judge found that blocking the Klan's sponsorship was unconstitutional, the Court of Appeals ruled that the state must erect signs announcing the group's sponsorship. However, the Missouri Legislature later voted to rename the stretch of I-55 the "Rosa Parks Highway" in honor of the Montgomery civil rights hero who began the Montgomery bus boycott. The Klan were eventually dropped from the scheme on April 4, 2005, on the grounds that for the duration of their sponsorship, they had not once cleaned the highway.

Exit list

County	Location	Mile	#	Destinations	Notes
Pemiscot County			1
			4
			8	US 61 south / Route 164 – Steele	South end of I-55 overlap
			14
			17A-B	I-155 east / US 412 – Caruthersville, Dyersburg, Hayti, Kennett	Signed as EXIT 17A EAST & EXIT 17B WEST
	Hayti		19	Route 84 – Hayti, Caruthersville
			27
New Madrid County	Portageville		32	US 61 north / Route 162 – Portageville	North end of US 61 overlap
	Marston		40
	New Madrid		44	US 61 / US 62 / I-55 BL north – New Madrid, Howardville
			49	US 61 / US 62 / I-55 BL south – New Madrid, Kewanee
			52
			58	Route 80 – Matthews, East Prairie
Scott County	Sikeston		66A-B	I-57 north / US 60 – Dexter, Poplar Bluff, Chicago	Signed as EXIT 66A NORTH EAST & EXIT 66B WEST
			67	US 62 – Sikeston, Bertrand
			69
			80	Route 77 – Benton, Diehlstadt
	Scott City		89		South end of US 61 overlap
			91
Cape Girardeau County	Cape Girardeau		93A-B	Route 74 west / US 61 north / I-55 BL north – Dutchtown, Cape Girardeau	North end of US 61 overlap; south end of Route 74 overlap; signed as EXIT 93A WEST & EXIT 93B NORTH northbound
			95	EAST, Cape Girardeau, Illinois Route	North end of Route 74 overlap
			96
			99	US 61 / Route 34 / I-55 BL – Cape Girardeau, Jackson
			105	US 61 / I-55 BL south – Fruitland, Jackson
			111
			117
			123
	Perryville		129	Route 51 – Perryville
			135
Ste. Genevieve County			141
			143
			150
			154
			157
			162
Jefferson County			170	US 61
	Crystal City		174A-B	US 67 / I-55 BL north – Festus, Crystal City, Park Hills, Bonne Terre, Flat River	Signed as EXIT 174A NORTH & EXIT 174B SOUTH
	Festus		175
	Herculaneum		178	I-55 BL south – Herculaneum
	Pevely		180
			185
	Kimmswick		186	Imperial Main St
			190	Richardson Rd
	Arnold		191	state=MO|Route|141|city1=Arnold|city2=Fenton}]
St. Louis County			193	Meramec Bottom Rd
			195	Butler Hill Rd
			196A	I-255 east – Chicago
			196B	I-270 west – Kansas City
			197	US 61 / US 67 / US 50 (Lindbergh Blvd)
			199	Reavis Barracks Rd
			200	Union Rd	Southbound exit and northbound entrance
			201A	Bayless Ave
			201B	Weber Rd	Southbound exit and northbound entrance
City of St. Louis			202A	Carondelet Blvd	Northbound exit and southbound entrance
			202B	Germania Ave	Southbound exit and northbound entrance
			202C	Loughborough Ave
			203	Virginia Ave, Bates St
			204	4500 S. Broadway
			205	Gasconade St	Southbound exit and northbound entrance
			206A	Potomac St	Northbound exit and southbound entrance
			206B	3200 S. Broadway	Northbound exit and southbound entrance
			206C	Arsenal St
			207A	Gravois Ave	Northbound exit and southbound entrance
			207B	I-44 west – Tulsa	Begin I-44 concurrency; Signed as EXIT 207 southbound
			290C	12th St, Gravois Ave	Southbound exit and northbound entrance
			207C	Lafayette Ave, Truman Parkway	Northbound exit and southbound entrance; former proposed
			208	Park Ave, 7th St
			251C	Memorial Dr - Downtown St. Louis, St. Louis Arch, Busch Stadium	Using I-70 exit numbers
			40C	I-64 west / US 40 west – St. Louis	South end of I-64/US 40 overlap; southbound exit and northbound entrance
			209B	I-70 west – Kansas CityModule:Jct warning: "road" parameter is deprecated	South end of I-70 overlap
Poplar Street Bridge over the Mississippi River, concurrency ends at Illinois border.

References

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